Promise of Rest - Word of Truth

Promise of Rest

By William M. Self

God’s Word is Truth

You cannot change the truth

But the truth can change you

Handle it with everyone

As if you were speaking to God  

 

Lies cause hurt, anger, insecurity and a lot of unrest.

The Bible says…“Many will follow their shameful ways and

will bring the way of truth into disrepute.” 2 Peter 2:2 NIV

We have all trusted people and

many of them well-meaning people.

But what they said they would do, did not happen

or did not happen the way they said it would.

Each time this happens it…

“Will bring the way of truth into disrepute.”

Disrepute: The state of being held in low esteem by the public.

Not only is the person discredited, but Truth itself.

The Greek word for disrepute is

blasphemeo meaning “Blaspheme”.

When Jesus said… “Everyone on the side

of truth listens to me Pilate said What is truth?”

That same question is still being asked today…

“What is truth?”

We live in a world where “truth is relative”.

 

It is the belief that there are no absolutes,

“truth is always relative to some

 particular frame of reference”.

The Bible talks about those who “wander from the truth”.

True freedom and rest comes only by living in the truth.

Jesus in John 17 prayed… “Sanctify them by the truth”.

The only thing that makes you and

I clean or purifies us is “Truth”.

Jesus goes on to say God’s “Word is Truth”.

Jesus said… “I sanctify myself,

that they too may be truly sanctified.”

Jesus not only knew the Word of God,

 He lived it so others would know the truth.

We find some very good instruction about truth in 2 Timothy 2…

“Do your best to present yourself to God” 

Whatever you say or do to others do it as looking into the face of God.

The Bible is the “Word of Truth”.

God spoke it and He knows what He said and what He meant.

 You and I will never be ashamed if we correctly handle God’s Word.

 

You cannot change the truth...

But the truth can change you.

Get sanctified and get rest…

And the truth will set you free.

Scripture Reading

John 17:17-19 NIV

17 Sanctify them by the truth;

your word is truth.

18 As you sent me into the world,

I have sent them into the world.

19 For them I sanctify myself, that

they too may be truly sanctified.

2 Timothy 2:15 NIV

15 Do your best to present yourself

 to God as one approved,

a workman who does

not need to be ashamed

and who correctly handles

 the word of truth.